IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pardee
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1971-CA-05-056x
  • User Pedon ID: 71-CA-05-056x
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1971-CA-05-056x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD7105056
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42219
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 38.2047270
  • Std. Longitude: -120.9570980
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 4N
  • Range: 9E
  • Section: 14
  • PLSS Details: NE/4, NW/4
  • Map Unit: 5202—Pardee-Amador complex, 15 to 40 percent slopes
  • State: California
  • County: CA009—Calaveras
  • MLRA: 18—Sierra Nevada Foothills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA630—Central Sierra Foothills Area, California, Parts of Calaveras and Tuolumne Counties
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38120-B8—Wallace, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JAD
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, mixed, active, thermic, shallow Ultic Haploxeralfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Pardee
  • PSC - 28 to 46 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/6/2017
  • Classifier - Andrew Paolucci
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - PARDEE
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, thermic, shallow Ultic Haploxeralfs
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 28 to 46 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/25/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture SUBClass - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: RES
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Geology: Mixed Gravelly Terraces formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/25/2009 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, savanna
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    QUDO

    Quercus douglasii

    blue oak

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    moderately coherent

    46 - 150

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—28

    28—46

    46—71

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    Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    2

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    107

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    0

    483

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    5

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist; gravelly loam; 46 percent sand; 35 percent silt; 19 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard; 21.0 very fine roots throughout and 21.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 medium irregular and 3.0 medium tubular and 3.0 fine tubular and 3.0 fine irregular pores; 22 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.9; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD01906
    BAt—8 to 28 centimeters (3.1 to 11.0 inches); 5YR 4/8 (5YR 4/8), yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist; gravelly sandy loam; 53 percent sand; 31 percent silt; 16 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 medium irregular and 3.0 medium tubular and 3.0 fine tubular and 3.0 fine irregular pores; 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds and 30 percent clay films on surfaces along pores; 14 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # UCD01907
    Bt—28 to 46 centimeters (11.0 to 18.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; gravelly clay; 26 percent sand; 18 percent silt; 56 percent clay; strong coarse angular blocky structure; extremely hard, extremely firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 very fine irregular and 3.0 fine irregular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 75 percent clay films on all faces of peds and 75 percent clay films on surfaces along pores; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # UCD01908
    Cr—46 to 150 centimeters (18.1 to 59.1 inches); gravelly coarse sandy loam; 78 percent sand; 3 percent silt; 19 percent clay; moderately coherent; 38 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6. Lab sample # UCD01909